Celebrating 10 Years of WordPress.com & Automattic

June 26, 2015

Mark Armstrong

This year marks the 10th birthday of WordPress.com and our parent company, Automattic. We are proud to have served this community of millions: from writers, photographers, artists, and small and large publishers, to business owners and entrepreneurs.

A quick bit of history: WordPress itself started as an open source project in 2003. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg then built our company, and the free, hosted version — WordPress.com, what you see now — opened for business in the summer of 2005.

Ten years, 2.5 billion posts, and 3 billion comments later, Automattic is stronger than ever — with WordPress.com and a host of other services aimed at helping independent publishers, bloggers, and business owners (the roster includes WooCommerce, Jetpack, Akismet, VaultPress, Polldaddy, Cloudup, Simplenote, Longreads, and more). All this, and we have a perfect record from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for protecting our users’ rights.

In addition to building a world-class publishing platform, our company has redefined what it means to be a global company working on the internet: we have nearly 400 employees, working from home (or their preferred coworking spaces), around the world. We use our own p2 sites to communicate with each other, and we all spend time doing support rotations with the people who matter most: Our users. (Also: we’re hiring!)

And we’re just getting started: 24% of websites on the internet now use WordPress to power their sites, and we believe there’s more for us to accomplish together to continue to make WordPress.com the engine that powers your creativity, your thoughts and ideas, and your business.

Thank you to everyone who makes this community so special. Here’s to the next 10 years.

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Heartfelt congratulations to the WordPress crew from a 10-year (almost) user/beneficiary. Your platform has made it possible for me to build websites, blogs and businesses focusing on my own strengths in content development, publishing and marketing without having to master PHP, CSS or Java. This has made me more self-sufficient and better able to move employers and clients ahead to success at the lowest possible cost and in the shortest time. My explanation isn’t doing justice to the contribution you’ve made to me, my companies and doubtlessly, to so many others who just need to get their stories out and draw people to the value they offer. Thanks, WordPress folks, for your contributions to world business and self-determination.

Congratulations on the use of more than 10 years WordPress. We at Globe View from Limburg Netherlands use WordPress for 7 years so to go a few more years before we can celebrate 10 years. On the 20years with WordPress an excellent choice.

WordPress can hold its head up for its innovative intentions of helping people communicate with one another in constructive and creative ways. WordPress is not intrusive and promotes the very healthy habit of reading and commenting versus clicking and reacting. A big yeah and congrats for accomplishing so much in such a short time.

Congratulations! I’ve been with WordPress for four years and am very thankful for its blogging community.
I’m running a Fitness Challenge this summer to get back in shape after surgery. It’s a virtual fitness club! I couldn’t do it without WordPress.

A big congratulations to WordPress!!! I’m so thankful that you have made this 10 years ago 😀 If WordPress didn’t existed, then I wouldn’t have any outlet for my “words of sadness” and I wouldn’t also meet these amazing and talented bloggers 😀

Simply enough, you have changed my life – WordPress allows my dis-abled MS body to engage my very able mind and heart and share my artwork with the rest of the planet. For Free. Incredible. HUGE thank you……….

Congratulations! You are by far the best platform for new bloggers who have no idea how to go about blogging. The support you provide to your bloggers, the community you help build is truly incredible! I hope you keep getting bigger and better, while remaining true to the things you do so well.

I am part of WordPress community now, so happy 10th year anniversary to us. Thanks for giving me a platform to express my thoughts, tell stories & express my creativity. To everyone working tirelessly to keep the community growing and going, keep up the good work. God bless you.

Congratulations on 10 years of platform building. I’ve been a WordPress blogger for five and a half of those years. I love some of the changes you’ve made over the years and am… less than enthusiastic about others. The part that impresses me the most though, and keeps me blogging with WordPress, is your support team!

Is it really ten years since I struggled to install those first versions from WordPress.org. When I think back – it’s hard to believe it’s the same programme. Who’d have thought that all that frustration would ever morph into ‘one click install’?
Many Happy Returns
David

I’ve been on WordPress since release 1 point something back in January 2006, and the software has always been a joy to use. After nine years, I have shifted over to using your hosting services, and that too works like a charm. As someone whose entire professional life was in software development and system management, it’s so great to sit back and just be a user, but understanding all the hard work that goes into making WordPress what it is today. A very big Happy Birthday!